PhD: University of Virginia (1995)
Fields: American South
Office: Keith 335
Phone: (859) 622-1293
rob.weise@eku.edu

Current Projects: I am currently working on papers and articles that will be put toward a book length manuscript on the political economy of poverty in the 20th century rural South.

Courses I commonly teach are focused on the American South, Appalachia, and Poverty in the American South.

Spring 2004 syllabi:

HIS 203: American Civilization Since 1877

HIS 407: American South in the Twentieth Century

Major Publications:
Grasping at Independence: Debt, Male Authority, and Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850-1915 (University of Tennessee Press, 2001)

"Remaking Red Bird: Isolation and the War on Poverty in a Rural Appalachian Locality" The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State (Cornell University Press, 2001).

Documents Collection to accompany American Passages, Vol. I.

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